phalanx
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Michael Sheen is set to star in a Welsh comedy film about a UFO sighting - after sharing his own encounter with "a phalanx of lights" in his hometown.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Instead of the usual phalanx of cars and buses, Saturday evening traffic on Wilshire Boulevard was replaced by massive balloons, mobile sculptures, gaggles of gallerists and an endless array of elaborate costumes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Dealers are investing in their repair shops, adding service bays and a phalanx of customer-friendly services once reserved for luxury patrons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
A phalanx of guards with full armor and riot shields watched over proceedings.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
He saw the phalanx of arrows gleam like an eyeflick in the moonlight All his life up to then he had been shooting into straw targets which made a noise like Phutt!
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
She uses it to tap fatefully on trees and listen for the tiny movements of tasty grubs within, which she then extracts using those same Nosferatu phalanges.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
On Sunday, Barker shared graphic photos of his blood-stained pants and sanguinary phalanges, which took a beating after Blink-182’s set in Manchester, England.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
I'd start with a small, manageable story: one hand has twenty-seven bones, split into three types—the carpals, the metacarpals, and the slippery phalanges.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022
The phalanges fall into line like a picket fence with boards of varying lengths, the knuckles unknobby.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
Had we descended from a fish with four or six phalanges, we would have four or six fingers on each hand and would think them perfectly natural.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
In the past, insurers have deployed phalanxes of angry seniors and run large-scale ad campaigns, including a commercial during the Super Bowl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Afterwards, Gandhi presided over waves of civil disobedience protests, encouraging supporters of the Indian National Congress to manufacture contraband salt, boycott foreign goods, and face down phalanxes of lathi-wielding policemen.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Federal security was finally forthcoming for Gaytán — at her funeral, which featured phalanxes of troops guarding Celaya’s cathedral.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Now the protesters appear to operate in impunity: Every few hours, phalanxes of volunteers tow garden trolleys bearing half-dozen 20-liter gas cans to top up the drivers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
The chief bow of the Aurora is, I may just mention, composed apparently of spears of ever-changing rainbow-coloured light continually falling back into masses and phalanxes, and anon advancing and clashing, as it were.
From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables
Vocabulary lists containing phalanx
Ancient Greece - Introductory
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The Sea of Monsters
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Ancient Greece, Lessons 1–3
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